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ABN AMRO Hires New Chief Innovation, Technology Officer

The current CITO will hand over his duties in 2018.
Dutch bank ABN AMRO
has appointed Christian Bornfeld as a member of the executive
board and chief innovation & technology officer. The appointment
is subject to regulatory approval and advice of the employee
council.
Bornfeld will join ABN AMRO on 1 December 2017, and he will start
as member of the executive board and as CITO on 1 March 2018, the
firm said in a statement.
Johan van Hall, currently vice-Chairman of the executive board
and CITO, will hand-over his remaining tasks beginning 2018 and
will resign from the executive board on 1 March 2018.
Bornfeld is currently chief operating officer of personal banking
at Nordea, responsible for IT, operations, strategic programs and
business risk implementation and support. Previously, he worked
at Danske Bank as chief information officer of corporate &
institutional banking and head of IT strategy, enterprise
architecture & technology innovation.
"His (Bornfeld) strong track record and extensive experience in
IT in the banking sector make him perfectly suited to be
appointed to ABN AMRO as new chief innovation & technology
officer,” said Olga Zoutendijk, chairman of the supervisory
board. “As innovation, technology and digitalisation have our
utmost strategic focus, Mr Bornfeld will be appointed at
executive board level."
The statement also said that the “supervisory board is grateful
to Mr van Hall, who has worked for 35 years at ABN AMRO, in
particular for his valuable contribution including the
integration of two banking IT platforms and the preparations for
the IPO. During his two consecutive terms as a managing board
member, Mr van Hall made a meaningful contribution to the
digitalisation of the bank and the innovation of the IT
platforms”.